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Summary: Nasty, Intelligent and Funny - the classic combo
Review: Oh, this book is funny. Yes. Funny funny funny. Read it now. I need to get it back from the person I lent it to so I can read it again.
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Summary: I Worship Cintra
Review: Other reviews have noted disappointment with Cintra's re-use of past material. Well, I hadn't seen the prior appearances of her brilliant, malign, acidulous, vindictive, cruel, defamatory and vituperative work - so there! Oh Cintra, Cintra, crusading vanquisher of the unjustly celebrated and untalented celebs! Long may you spin out your rage on the oafish, dullwitted and ill-starred nonentities that fill our media. Except you, of course, babe. Here's the synopsis: BUY THIS BOOK. NOW. (And, Cintra, please do another one soon! The venom may wear off, and then where would I be?)
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Summary: Two thumbs up.
Review: Surprisingly witty and hilarious. A must read.
Rating:
Summary: Two thumbs up.
Review: Surprisingly witty and hilarious. A must read.
Rating: 
Summary: Not worth any amount of your time
Review: The preponderant 'massive swelling' in this collection is that of Cintra Wilson's ego. At no times does her prose effuse anything other than the superficial, the facile, and the obvious; lacerating Michael Jackson and Barabara Streisand does not an insightful essayist make. Her incessant sarcasm and rambling sentences are abrasive, not trenchant. At the end of the day, you'll feel dirty and appreciably less human for struggling through this slight, self-congratulatory, sanctimonious diatribe.
Wilson doesn't seem to appreciate that without the reviled subjects of her ire, she would have no means of articulating just how smart and cultured and hip she is. These essays are as revelatory as food poisoning; this is cultural critique of the lowest caliber.
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Summary: Waxing Off
Review: This book inspires me to wax poetic like Eminem rapping while he gets "the boys" waxed!! I mean it, this is the full-theatrical release of something ol' Em might have spent minutes on, except it goes on until the Hitachi head melts down! Full frontal prose! Lord-y, this woman knows how to put ridges on words. Here's my fictional throw-down:It's as easy
as teasing
a Venus Fly Trap
that's squeezing the pleasing-
ness, nobody believes we're all pleased as Punch, we just
put up with the cheesi-
ness This is Hell's Green Room, Inside the Trap..... OK, Cintra Wilson does a better job making social commentary than my imagined scenario of MM lamenting the wholesale swallowing of popular culture while having his privates depilated.. She does a much better job, a much better hand-over-fist job. The hand is naughtier than the fist, especially when splayed on Cintra's keyboard. Even the title of the book is slick, um, slick as hairless...
Rating:
Summary: Waxing Off
Review: This book inspires me to wax poetic like Eminem rapping while he gets "the boys" waxed!! I mean it, this is the full-theatrical release of something ol' Em might have spent minutes on, except it goes on until the Hitachi head melts down! Full frontal prose! Lord-y, this woman knows how to put ridges on words. Here's my fictional throw-down: It's as easy
as teasing
a Venus Fly Trap
that's squeezing the pleasing-
ness, nobody believes we're all pleased as Punch, we just
put up with the cheesi-
ness This is Hell's Green Room, Inside the Trap..... OK, Cintra Wilson does a better job making social commentary than my imagined scenario of MM lamenting the wholesale swallowing of popular culture while having his privates depilated.. She does a much better job, a much better hand-over-fist job. The hand is naughtier than the fist, especially when splayed on Cintra's keyboard. Even the title of the book is slick, um, slick as hairless...
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Summary: This book is magnificent
Review: This book is an extremely funny and extremely important wake-up call to a culture that has given itself over to extreme celebrity-worship.
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Summary: Funniest book I've ever read
Review: This book keep me laughing from start to finish. I found Ms. Wilson's writing style to be easy to read and visual.
Wish that she would write another book.
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Summary: Fun Fun Fun!
Review: This book was so funny I started reading it last night and finished it this morning, without any sleep between! It's hard to put down. I love all her amusing metaphors and witty nicknames. It's fantastic! Her column is great, too.
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